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Votes at a glance: Needham finance committee approves opioid spending, higher aging-services cap, retirement-base rise and other warrant items
Summary
The Needham Finance Committee approved several warrant actions: a $50,000 appropriation from opioid settlement funds for program use, increased revolving fund limits including a $150,000 cap for aging services, a retirement-base COLA raise from $18,000 to $20,000, a 3% town-clerk pay increase, and rescission of a $55,000 dormant debt authorization.
The Needham Finance Committee on March 3 approved a slate of warrant items covering public-health spending, revolving-fund limits, retirement benefits and clerical pay.
In a roll-call series of voice votes, the committee approved an appropriation from the town's opioid-settlement fund; raised several revolving-fund spending ceilings, including increasing the Aging Services limit from $100,000 to $150,000; approved a retirement-board request to raise the contributory base from…
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